Otto Goetzke

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the cyclist of the same name, see Otto Goetzke .

Otto Götzke (born November 28, 1890 ; † April 13, 1945 in Gardelegen ) was a German trade unionist , resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Götzke learned after visiting the elementary school a profession with which he at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss was busy. He joined the German Metalworkers Association (DMV). Götzke campaigned against the emerging National Socialism and continued his resistance illegally when power was transferred to the NSDAP in 1933 . After the beginning of the Second World War he belonged to the resistance group Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen , which supported foreign forced laborers and carried out political education about the war of extermination of the Wehrmacht . When the resistance network was exposed through treason , Götzke was also arrested and sentenced by a court to a prison sentence, which he was supposed to serve in the prison in Celle . When the British liberators approached , the prison inmates were evacuated and transferred to the Bützow / Dreibergen prison. Shortly before the liberation of Bützow by the Allies, the remaining prisoners were driven on a death march . Götzke was one of the 1,016 prisoners who were driven into the Isenschnibber field barn by SS men and shot there or burned alive.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Eiber : Workers and labor movement in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg in the years 1929 to 1939: Shipyard workers, dock workers and seamen: conformity, opposition, resistance . P. Lang, 2000, ISBN 9783631317273 . on Google Books. Retrieved September 27, 2011
2. ↑ Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group: Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the water's edge during the Second World War . Dietz, 1959. Retrieved September 27, 2011 from Google Books